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Th' dhrink thot done it. Twas a new kind av cocktail. Ye see, I'd jist got back from Melbourne, an' I was takin' in th' lights that noight, aisy like, whin I come t' Toddy's place. I orders a dhrink av whuskey. "'Whist, Pat, says he, 'ye don't want whuskey; 'twill make ye dhrunk. Why don't ye take somethin' green, like th' Irish? "'Green," says I. ''Tis a foine colour.

Then Peg laughed loudly to Ethel's horror and Mrs. Chichester's disgust. "How dare you!" cried her aunt. Peg looked at her a moment, all the mirth died away. "Mustn't I laugh in this house?" she asked. "You have a great deal to learn." "Yes, aunt." "Your education will begin to-morrow." "Sure that will be foine," and she chuckled. "No levity, if you please," said her aunt severely. "No, aunt."

"Well, by me faith, ye didn't put up no bad roide. Ye handled that horse foine. Don't run away, lad," he added, hurrying after the retreating Allis. Before she could escape him, he had her by the arm, and turned about face to face. Even then he didn't recognize her, for Allis had taken a most subtle precaution in her make-up.

"Do you know," said Leonore, "that Miss De Voe told me once that you were a man who found good in everything, and I see what she meant." "I can't hold a candle to Dennis. He says its 'a foine day' so that you feel that it really is. I never saw him in my life, when it wasn't 'a foine day. I tell him he carries his sunshine round in his heart."

The very possibility of being sent into some unknown regiment was a terror so great that the other alternative became less odious to the boys, and they trotted after Jack, as he stalked moody and distracted to Major Mike McGoyle's tent, now the only habitable spot left where a few hours before a symmetrical little city had stood. "And so ye want to be solgers, me foine b'yes?

They had just sat down to the repast when the weazen-faced patriarch of the tribe remarked, by way of grace, it may be supposed, "Be jabers, but isn't ould Holcroft givin' us a foine spread the noight! Here's bad luck to the glowerin' ould skinflint!" and he poured out a bumper from the jug. The farmer waited to see and hear no more.

Rejoining Corson, I explained Mother Borton's theory of the plot that had brought me thither. "She's like to be right," said the policeman. "She knows the gang. Now, if you'll take my advice, you'll let the rats have your room for this night, and come along up to some foine hotel."

He was too old, he said, to care about going to America, and Rotumah was a "foine place to die in 'twas so far away from the bloody redcoats." As he looked at the two figures who stood on the poop waving their hands to him, his old eyes dimmed and blurred. "May the howly Saints bless an' kape thim for iver! Sure, he's a thrue man, an' she's a good woman!"

Them's my oyes foine oyes." And he continued to produce more and more spectacles from his pockets until the table began to gleam and flash all over. Thousands of eyes were looking and blinking convulsively, and staring up at Nathanael; he could not avert his gaze from the table.

It has evidently secured its reputation, from being the only decent street in New York just as Sackville Street in Dublin is "a foine place entirely," on account of its being the only one of any respectable length or width in the city on the Liffey if you will kindly permit the comparison for a moment? I was disappointed, I confess.